A certain editor has decided to set up a fan club, and you have the honour of being its first member! [1]! Keep up the good work and good luck. -- Mrfixter 13:34, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
Dude, what's your problem? You insist on engaging in edits that border on vandalism and you fail to justify any of them. Is is because you can't or are you just refusing to do so out of sheer rudeness? -- JonGwynne 06:18, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi Mel, that's unprotected again. I protected it only because the editor who moved it appears to have lost some edit history and didn't move the talk page; then once I'd moved it back, he edited the text in a way that suggested he might be preparing for a move again, but move-only protection wasn't working. I can see that it needs work, so enjoy. ;-) SlimVirgin (talk) 10:30, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
I wonder why you remove the template stated on the header in Wee Kim Wee/temp and Maharashtra/temp. If Bell can put up the message and the template stated above, I see no reason in you taking it down. It is not an imitation, for we had initial intentions to put a message on the top.
Post your objections on my talk page.
Then why you keep on removing it in the past? I demand an explanation (and/or apology).
I'm going for intensive editing on Wee Kim Wee/temp. Now!
So don't remove it unless I leave it four days untouched.
(Apologise if you find me rude--I also feel that my hurry-burry attitude will offend people. I try to be polite then)
As my responses on your Talk page seem not have got through, I'll repeat them here.
I notice that you suspended Elkabong a while back. He's left another extremely abusive message here Talk:Islamofascism (I've deleted it, but you can see it in the history). Elkabong is also apparently a sockpuppet for kainthescion (or vice versa) -- Lee Hunter 19:10, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
Okay, Wee Kim Wee/temp is now at User:Mr Tan/Wee Kim Wee, and Talk:Wee Kim Wee/Temp is at User talk:Mr Tan/Wee Kim Wee, which is why I'm posting a reply to you here, because the talk page is now his private user space. Wee Kim Wee and Talk:Wee Kim Wee are not affected. Let me know if he's created any others; I may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. SlimVirgin (talk) 21:24, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
" Spice Up Your Life" has to be given the power to be edited again. The chronology is being left out, and is disconnecting Spice Girls singles. Return the power to edit to the article, please. DrippingInk 21:25, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
Thank you. DrippingInk 21:50, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
Hey, was that comment directed towards myself? El_C 22:36, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
Please see User:Jpbrenna/Osprey Copyright Violations. I have notifed Amir85 as well. I don't know what do do about them, but I noticed that you had left a message for him about another image, so I thought you might. -- Jpbrenna 06:14, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
What? I removed it yesterday. Did you put it back? JM Bell ° 10:30, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi Mel, I'm taking a short break to regain my sanity and personality. I don't know how long it will take, or if I'll ever come back, but I should be back in a month, if ever. I'm giving Zossen to you to translate and edit. As for Tan, I'm not giving up hope on him. Be nice to him and if he strikes out at you, don't strike back. Same with Nanshu and the others.
So I guess that's it. Hope Wikipedia won't change while I'm away. Don't do anything foolish with Zossen, okay? Goodbye. :) JM Bell ° 14:37, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
You will probably be happy to know that I have copied my Stagecoach articles to Wikitravel. Ted Ted 19:39, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
Actually, I think the anon IP might be right. I always thought it was Knightsbridge prof, but I checked it today on Google. Both get a respectable number of hits, but Edward Craig, the current chair, says Knightbridge on his dept webpage. The Cambridge phil dept is small, and I could believe that was a typo, even on their own website, but the quality of the other sources who say Knightbridge makes me think it's right. OUP says Knightsbridge; the Telegraph also says Knightsbridge; and I've found both in the Guardian. I don't know who the chair was named after, that's the problem. But I'd say we should probably go with what Edward Craig is called on the philosophy website. SlimVirgin (talk) 22:45, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
I just wanted to thank you for the work you did with my Storm of chaos article! - Sindreman
Thanks, Mel. So simple when one has one's POV in check! Sunray 09:22, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
Having never taking a grammar course, I largely approach English intuitively. So my question is: when is it propper to say 'which' viz. 'that' ? El_C 09:48, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
The exact nature and timing of this seems to be more than just coincidence: [3] Seems to share some common interests: [4]
FeloniousMonk 17:54, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
See also user:66.69.141.11, also from Houston. - Willmcw 04:06, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
The RfC opened on me has apparently reached a stable consensus to close. Would you please archive it appropriately? Thanks. Whig 19:33, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I think there is slightly more agreement than disagreement for the redirects to Neofascism and religion from Islamofascism, Islamic fascism, and Christian fascism, so if you agree, could you remove page protection, archive up those pages, and plop in the redirects? I will make sure that it is clear up in the lead that these terms are contentious and disputed and sometimes just epithets. :-) -- Cberlet 20:28, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
Your constant knee-jerk reverting without comment, your harassment, and your targeting of me needs to stop.
Since you saw fit to remove a comment from my user page, I hereby serve you notice: ANY attempt made by you to edit my User page or to remove content from my Talk page will be reported as vandalism. Do not do this again. Enviroknot
Before I go (or at least considering), I would like to say a few words with you.
With that, I shall conclude my messages. I will also appreciate if you could spend a bit of time and look through my RfC response and the comment. Farewell.
Dear Mel. I took a stab at copy-editing Sharon Interfaith Youth Leadership Program, but being a new member I can't figure out how to remove the copy-edit notice at the top of the article. Perhaps I don't have permission to do this yet.
I was not able to demystify the style completely but at least fixed some structural & grammar issues..
Katherine Morrow Brussels
I'm not quite sure what the point of your edits were. You changed a correctly capitalised link to an incorrectly capitalised one, you changed the standard abbreviation "c." to the non-standard full form "circa", you said that the axe has a distinctive shape without saying what it was, and you changed a perfectly clear sentence to another perfectly clear sentence, differing only in inessential matters of style. Why? Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 10:11, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 09:16, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
Just to jump in, I'm seeing more and more articles using birth and death dates with wikified c. which seems to work well for people that might not know what it means. Fawcett5 23:34, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
I just noticed User:Sam_Spade/Report_rogue_admin/Mel_Etitis_Email.
If you were half the rogue Sam insists you are, I suppose you would claim that his publishing of your emails to him was a copyright violation, just as he did in his attempt to suppress the evidence of his email. Sigh. When will people here stop making excuses for and protecting one of wikipedia's most persistently abusive editors? FeloniousMonk 02:24, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
Um, thanks. I'm not entirely sure what that was all about, but I'm glad you reverted it. - Acjelen 14:30, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for agreeing with me. I'm glad it can happen! I wouldn't know how to go about implementing such a policy, but if you wanted to I would support it as pages such as this are basically no more than personal attacks. We have RfC for a reason. These pages are unnecessary. -- Silversmith Hewwo 15:03, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
Looks like you were correct. I'm sorry for jumping the gun, and I admit that I was wrong. Thanks for pointing it out to me! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 19:32, May 29, 2005 (UTC)
Mel, you so far only admin who accept good faith and understand I not trying to harm. You comment on RFC good or neutral maybe?
( William M. Connolley 20:11, 29 May 2005 (UTC)) Hi. You removed the delete tag on Ssmr but didn't say why. Errm... why? Its listed on Wikipedia:Speedy deletions too, BTW. So... I listed it because SSMR is the correct acronym (or SSM/R) not Ssmr, which isn't. Leaving Ssmr will do little harm I suppose, but also little good.
I respectfully disagree. According to Merriam Webster, http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=God&x=0&y=0, God, when capitalized means the Supreme Being. When you make it lower case, http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=deity&x=0&y=0, such as deity, a god would mean a Greco-roman god, not a supreme Reality. Shaivities belive that Shiva is the Supreme Being vs. being a god or deva or deity. Subtle difference. I did drop the article the. Thanks.
Raj2004
22:51, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
I still think it's important to make that point. Muslims believe Allah to be the only God just as Jews believe Yahweh to be the only God. The same goes with Shaivites although they think other aspects of God are different forms of Shiva. Raj2004 11:01, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
There is currently an editing war that is turning ugly. Yes, people want to delete the Cyprus Dispute and The Turkish Invasion of Cyprus and Half of the wikipedians seem to be either Turks or Turkish sympathizers. There is also one nationalist Greek. It is turning so ugly that I fear that if they get their way they migh even succeed in deleting even the Rebublic of Cyprus entry. They are also threatening to delete Smyrna. I appeal to you and place the following wiki members under review for actions against the policy of NPOV: Expatkiwi, Feco, E.A (check out this guy's bias on his user talk page). ... added at 05:33, 2005 May 30 UNFanatic
Mel, Enviroknot is rather understandably unhappy about the way the sockpuppet template keeps popping up on his user page. On my talk page at least, he phrases this unhappiness politely. The charming little sock is accompanied by: "See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR#User:Enviroknot/User:129.7.35.1 for evidence." So I did. Not there. Supposing that it was in the archives, I looked there too. Perhaps I missed something, but the closest I could find was this, in which SlimVirgin and Yuber make the allegation but adduce no evidence. If you're sure there was a "User:Enviroknot/User:129.7.35.1", I'll look for it; if not, I think a better link is needed. -- Hoary 11:05, 2005 May 30 (UTC)
Hi there,
in reply: I found it more productive to re-edit the article a bit. - Snchduer 16:13, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
Oops. Sorry. Won't use that one anymore. -- ericl234 talk 22:39, May 30, 2005 (UTC)
Could you do what needs doing on Human with regard to implementing the consensus on paragraph four? I'm unfamilar with both the mechanics and traditions associated with freezing and unfreezing articles. Thanks for your help. 4.250.198.168 14:59, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
If you could kindly respond to the discussion in which you accused me of acting in "bad faith" I would appreciate it greatly.
With insincere polite regards (because we all know that it's the text, and not the thought that counts),
-- Phrost 19:46, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi Mel, though my break is far from finished, I've thought up something and need someone to say whether my idea is sensible or not. It's here. I'm open to all kinds of criticism. If you've got questions, just ask me (though it might take me some time to reply as I'm not yet fully recovered). Cheers - JM* Bell ° 20:32, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
Sorry! But I really do think Wikipedia has a problem with them! (81.156.177.21 Cheese Deams, Fish Supper etc)
Bye forever,
Angel77
Hi, I think there is slightly more agreement than disagreement for the redirects to Neofascism and religion from Islamofascism, Islamic fascism, and Christian fascism, so if you agree, could you remove page protection, archive up those pages, and plop in the redirects? This is even more justified given the current controversies over some of the objectors. If you think you are the wrong Admin to do this given the level of hell you have been consigned to, can you suggest someone else? Just trying to get this done at some point. -- Cberlet 02:46, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Actually I have redirected Islamic fascism and Christian fascism. I will archive them in a week if there is no explosion. Then maybe I can redirect Islamofascism. -- Cberlet 13:15, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
If you are interested, you may look up [5]. (Sorry for the delay, for my computer was down)
I have already replied. If you still disagree, feel free to post your comments at [6]. Tan 21:31, 1 June 2005 (UTC)
FYI: Votes to request a move do not happen on WP:RM any more, they take place on the talk page of the page requested to be moved. In this case I suspect it is a troll. Philip Baird Shearer 14:30, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Mel, thanks for your vote in support of my admin nomination. Paul August ☎ 17:03, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Mel. I have been, at Dsquared's request (a red talk link showed up on my watchlist, and one thing led to another), looking at the talk discussion for Oliver North. While I understand that you have spent a long time editing that article, and have been fighting POV-pushers, I do think that you should be more ready to listen to Dsquared without labelling him a sockpuppet, unless there is direct evidence to the contrary. I think you are quite possibly being a little hasty – I understand your reasons, but I think you could be more diplomatic. Wikipedia:Don't bite the newcomers. I understand fully your point of view (indeed, I agree with your wording), but I think more diplomacy would not go amiss. Cheers, smoddy 23:36, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I've restored the text additions you deleted without overwriting your previous copy edits; my pastes were done from an offline copy of the article. One thing I did fix was the location of the "hereford" image so that it no longer breaks into the section title. In the future, please do not delete content from articles without prior discussion; it took a fair amount of research to develop the original stub article into something of reasonable depth and factual accuracy, and to expand it meaningfully as well. We all have the same goal here.
-- Lordkinbote 02:30, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
Hi there, I see you're deleting images. Perhaps you could have a look at Image:CryptoDick2.jpg which was uploaded a few minutes ago. I wasn't sure if a {{db}} tag worked on images. Regards. Anilocra 12:22, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
A quick google seach would have shown you that this was speediable, I've listed it for vfd now. -- nixie 15:33, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Mr Tan has asked I "judge" Zanskar; of course I said I could do no such thing, but offer to mediate informally -- as any Wikipedian might do -- if you and he have any willingness I do so.
My qualifications are two: I am absolutely impartial to the topic, so far as I know; I have no idea what Zanskar is, and have not so much as followed the link to the page. My command of my language is excellent; I understand there are issues of both content and form.
To the extent that it may develop I discover a bias of mine to affect the debate -- whatever that may be -- I promise to suppress it as far as possible, and failing that, to recuse myself. Whatever the subject may be, I trust it can be stabilized. — Xiong 熊 talk * 16:30, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)
Fragmented discussion merged to Usertalk :Xiong -- please avoid fragmented discussions. -- I had to post to your page to bring you into the discussion, but from here on out, I suggest I host the topic of my involvement in this article on my talk page. Feel free to delete above text. — Xiong 熊 talk * 00:20, 2005 Jun 3 (UTC)
Apologies, I assume that you know better- the only reason I changed it is because I am studying Philosophy & on my syllabus it says "Gaunilo's analogy of the island in On Behalf of the Fool". I just assumed this was right and the link had a typo. Sorry. - sars 16:41, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
At the moment I'm just at AS Level, although I do hope to study Philosophy & Maths at uni - I notice you are a professor at Oxford- I'll certainly be applying at Oxbridge, though whether I'd get in with such competition is another matter! sars 21:17, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
Yeah I was in contact with somebody, (I think her name was Ms Hood?) about going to the open day that was on May 7th but couldn't go in the end- but thanks a lot for letting me know about June 30th, I'll definitely go along. :) sars 21:34, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
What was wrong with my addition to the article on Power violence?
I think the Gwen Stefani album page requires protection. The guy who keeps adding the New Order collaboration doesn't seem to understand that there isn't one. There isn't one. DrippingInk 21:55, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I've started a Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration on User:Argyrosargyrou. Please take a look and add any evidence you feel is relevant to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Argyrosargyrou/Evidence. -- ChrisO 22:21, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Just to let you know, I feel that it would be more appropriate that the cleanup tag would be put up if mass article-restructuring is needed/to be done, see Joseon dynasty for comparison. Feel free to post your comments.
I hope that you will not interrupt in my re-structuring editing progress. I am already seriously spiritually and mentally disturbed at your tyrannical attitude towards me. I hope that settles the case. Thanks.
Done. Sorry, I should have known better. SlimVirgin (talk) 14:04, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC) ]
Go and see my reply.
Well, I had just created a welcoming template for newcomers when I saw yours... WOW! Really nicely done. Do you mind if I borrow a few ideas from it? Sarg 14:59, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Why are you reverting my edits at
You stated that I should contribute to wikipedia, yet you are doing reverts. Can you explain why? I'm merely doing spelling corrections and adding facts.
Stop your explicit reverts without explanations now. I am tracking on you. Otherwise I ask an admin to block you.
Unless you elaborate on your reasons for the reverts [7], I do not welcome explicit reverts like this. I have counter-reverted all your reverts for you gave no proper explanations or providing proper information on your case. If you go on like this, I will have to ask a member of the arbitration committee to review your case, unless you change your attitude.
Gentlemen, what is going on here? Why are we having an issue? Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 17:00, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
See his [] contributions; most of reverts he did not give proper reasons; probably vandalism.
Cool down. I don't see where are your edits, but you deleted my contributions to the articles. Please stop reverting my contributions without reasons, and that is what you do. You may contribute on top from there, but that doesn't warrant you to revert and revert explicitely. I cannot see where did you add in in addition to my reverts, and I consider a revert + addins as a revert.
When you cleaned the reference in the Sister Theresia Unno, I appreciate the removal of all caps, but I think removing the web page reference retrieval date and the footnote is improper.
Web sites are subject to change, and the only way to properly cite them as references is to cite the date as well. See WP:CITE. Her starting the FJANL organization is specific to the reference, so there should also be a footnote, to clarify the source when the article is expanded further.
Thanks for the edit. I've restored the footnote in fn/fnb form rather than manual footnoting by superscript numbers, and I've restored the retrieval date to the reference. -- Un focused 16:55, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Dear M, I have heard some speculation that the Greek "arete" is somehow derived from the Sanskrit "rta". I regret I don't have a source for this (of course), but it's popped up a number of times. This is sort of outside my philosophical education, so perhaps you could comment?
Yours, Mashford 66.82.9.63 20:33, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I created entries for Brenda Barrie (linked from personalities born in Winnipeg) and her novel The Binding, and I notice you were quick like a bunny to make some modifications.
Main difference between version you restored and my later one is that I looked for other items mentioned that had relevant pages and set them up as links, and italicized titles throughout (except when they are links).
This seems like fun. I'm about to create an account and join the community.
Thanks again,
Gray Matter gray-matter@bigbluepeople.net
You may wish to respond to User:Mr Tan's comments on my user talk page. Or not. Up to you. Kelly Martin 05:07, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
Most of the work was just a cut-and-paste job, so there is no reason to be impressed. ;-)
Last week I had created my second m:red link to grunion since I had started editing on the Wikipedia, so I decided that it was about time that I create the missing article. Luckily the material from the California Fish and Game Dept. is in the public domain, and there was also an article on grunion this last week in the Los Angeles Times. I was working on creating a more polished article when the newly created article showed up on my Watchlist, so I figured that I should copy and paste what I already had (mostly from Cal. F&G), rather than the more polished article I am still planning on finishing. Right now I'm working on getting some good pictures to add to the article. I guess that the since the article is now "live", I should suggest it for " Did you know".
(I find it interesting that I was able to set up an article on my Watchlist that wasn't even created yet.) BlankVerse ∅ 10:33, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Mel, please behave constructively. Your "overhauling of new material" included your fifth removal of the bolded "Harry" at the beginning of that article in a day, that's why it was misleading. Mr. Tan claims that his British birth certificate lists his full name as "Harry Lee Kuan Yew". If that is true (and I haven't seen anyone on the talk page claim that it isn't), it's perfectly reasonable to start the article the way he wants to. Zocky 12:21, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I tagged it for speedy deletion because the content is "lkjl;". Note that it is an image from Commons, so it won't disappear if you delete the page here. RexNL 13:47, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Before you start arbitration, I demand the rights of mine in the following:
Look here. I have my reasons to back against all your edits. And I'm not just going to sit down here and get arbitrated for nothing.
I encourage you to speak out on whatever resentements against me, provided if this is a fair arbitration. However, if your arbitration does not meet the above conditions, I will see to other methods to deal with your attitude. Thanks.
You did not invite me, in fact, you forced me in, for I'm a participant of the arbitration. See what you stated: Please do not edit this page directly unless you wish to become a participant in this request. So, I am forced into under such circumstances to edit your page. Tan 23:41, 4 June 2005 (UTC)
As if you don't know? Then why did the articles that I edited coincide to a great extent with yours, all those stupid reverts? I'm not a fool, professor.
A co-incidence...I never refered to it properly, honestly.
You forced me into this stupid arbitration thing, and I do not want to have any reverts from you. This is unfair for you to do such a thing, unless you close everything altogether.
But why you say that Please do not edit this page directly unless you wish to become a participant in this request. I am a participant of this case in the first place. It just so happens that I'm included by you, and yet you are prohibiting me to edit the page. Thus, what I mean is spiritually forced, and it is not fair at all for you to do such a thing.
I wrote the short stub on Colby Donaldson which replaced the redirect. In general, I feel that an article on the subject, even a stub, is preferable to a redirect to another article. MK2 17:21, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I know you arent going ot believe I'm trying to help the guy, but here goes. A number of individuals from that usenet group he lives in have set up a nasty Wiki entry for Chad. You should delete it or something. Its pretty bad.
A certain editor has decided to set up a fan club, and you have the honour of being its first member! [1]! Keep up the good work and good luck. -- Mrfixter 13:34, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
Dude, what's your problem? You insist on engaging in edits that border on vandalism and you fail to justify any of them. Is is because you can't or are you just refusing to do so out of sheer rudeness? -- JonGwynne 06:18, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi Mel, that's unprotected again. I protected it only because the editor who moved it appears to have lost some edit history and didn't move the talk page; then once I'd moved it back, he edited the text in a way that suggested he might be preparing for a move again, but move-only protection wasn't working. I can see that it needs work, so enjoy. ;-) SlimVirgin (talk) 10:30, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
I wonder why you remove the template stated on the header in Wee Kim Wee/temp and Maharashtra/temp. If Bell can put up the message and the template stated above, I see no reason in you taking it down. It is not an imitation, for we had initial intentions to put a message on the top.
Post your objections on my talk page.
Then why you keep on removing it in the past? I demand an explanation (and/or apology).
I'm going for intensive editing on Wee Kim Wee/temp. Now!
So don't remove it unless I leave it four days untouched.
(Apologise if you find me rude--I also feel that my hurry-burry attitude will offend people. I try to be polite then)
As my responses on your Talk page seem not have got through, I'll repeat them here.
I notice that you suspended Elkabong a while back. He's left another extremely abusive message here Talk:Islamofascism (I've deleted it, but you can see it in the history). Elkabong is also apparently a sockpuppet for kainthescion (or vice versa) -- Lee Hunter 19:10, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
Okay, Wee Kim Wee/temp is now at User:Mr Tan/Wee Kim Wee, and Talk:Wee Kim Wee/Temp is at User talk:Mr Tan/Wee Kim Wee, which is why I'm posting a reply to you here, because the talk page is now his private user space. Wee Kim Wee and Talk:Wee Kim Wee are not affected. Let me know if he's created any others; I may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. SlimVirgin (talk) 21:24, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
" Spice Up Your Life" has to be given the power to be edited again. The chronology is being left out, and is disconnecting Spice Girls singles. Return the power to edit to the article, please. DrippingInk 21:25, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
Thank you. DrippingInk 21:50, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
Hey, was that comment directed towards myself? El_C 22:36, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
Please see User:Jpbrenna/Osprey Copyright Violations. I have notifed Amir85 as well. I don't know what do do about them, but I noticed that you had left a message for him about another image, so I thought you might. -- Jpbrenna 06:14, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
What? I removed it yesterday. Did you put it back? JM Bell ° 10:30, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi Mel, I'm taking a short break to regain my sanity and personality. I don't know how long it will take, or if I'll ever come back, but I should be back in a month, if ever. I'm giving Zossen to you to translate and edit. As for Tan, I'm not giving up hope on him. Be nice to him and if he strikes out at you, don't strike back. Same with Nanshu and the others.
So I guess that's it. Hope Wikipedia won't change while I'm away. Don't do anything foolish with Zossen, okay? Goodbye. :) JM Bell ° 14:37, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
You will probably be happy to know that I have copied my Stagecoach articles to Wikitravel. Ted Ted 19:39, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
Actually, I think the anon IP might be right. I always thought it was Knightsbridge prof, but I checked it today on Google. Both get a respectable number of hits, but Edward Craig, the current chair, says Knightbridge on his dept webpage. The Cambridge phil dept is small, and I could believe that was a typo, even on their own website, but the quality of the other sources who say Knightbridge makes me think it's right. OUP says Knightsbridge; the Telegraph also says Knightsbridge; and I've found both in the Guardian. I don't know who the chair was named after, that's the problem. But I'd say we should probably go with what Edward Craig is called on the philosophy website. SlimVirgin (talk) 22:45, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
I just wanted to thank you for the work you did with my Storm of chaos article! - Sindreman
Thanks, Mel. So simple when one has one's POV in check! Sunray 09:22, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
Having never taking a grammar course, I largely approach English intuitively. So my question is: when is it propper to say 'which' viz. 'that' ? El_C 09:48, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
The exact nature and timing of this seems to be more than just coincidence: [3] Seems to share some common interests: [4]
FeloniousMonk 17:54, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
See also user:66.69.141.11, also from Houston. - Willmcw 04:06, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
The RfC opened on me has apparently reached a stable consensus to close. Would you please archive it appropriately? Thanks. Whig 19:33, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I think there is slightly more agreement than disagreement for the redirects to Neofascism and religion from Islamofascism, Islamic fascism, and Christian fascism, so if you agree, could you remove page protection, archive up those pages, and plop in the redirects? I will make sure that it is clear up in the lead that these terms are contentious and disputed and sometimes just epithets. :-) -- Cberlet 20:28, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
Your constant knee-jerk reverting without comment, your harassment, and your targeting of me needs to stop.
Since you saw fit to remove a comment from my user page, I hereby serve you notice: ANY attempt made by you to edit my User page or to remove content from my Talk page will be reported as vandalism. Do not do this again. Enviroknot
Before I go (or at least considering), I would like to say a few words with you.
With that, I shall conclude my messages. I will also appreciate if you could spend a bit of time and look through my RfC response and the comment. Farewell.
Dear Mel. I took a stab at copy-editing Sharon Interfaith Youth Leadership Program, but being a new member I can't figure out how to remove the copy-edit notice at the top of the article. Perhaps I don't have permission to do this yet.
I was not able to demystify the style completely but at least fixed some structural & grammar issues..
Katherine Morrow Brussels
I'm not quite sure what the point of your edits were. You changed a correctly capitalised link to an incorrectly capitalised one, you changed the standard abbreviation "c." to the non-standard full form "circa", you said that the axe has a distinctive shape without saying what it was, and you changed a perfectly clear sentence to another perfectly clear sentence, differing only in inessential matters of style. Why? Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 10:11, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 09:16, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
Just to jump in, I'm seeing more and more articles using birth and death dates with wikified c. which seems to work well for people that might not know what it means. Fawcett5 23:34, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
I just noticed User:Sam_Spade/Report_rogue_admin/Mel_Etitis_Email.
If you were half the rogue Sam insists you are, I suppose you would claim that his publishing of your emails to him was a copyright violation, just as he did in his attempt to suppress the evidence of his email. Sigh. When will people here stop making excuses for and protecting one of wikipedia's most persistently abusive editors? FeloniousMonk 02:24, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
Um, thanks. I'm not entirely sure what that was all about, but I'm glad you reverted it. - Acjelen 14:30, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for agreeing with me. I'm glad it can happen! I wouldn't know how to go about implementing such a policy, but if you wanted to I would support it as pages such as this are basically no more than personal attacks. We have RfC for a reason. These pages are unnecessary. -- Silversmith Hewwo 15:03, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
Looks like you were correct. I'm sorry for jumping the gun, and I admit that I was wrong. Thanks for pointing it out to me! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 19:32, May 29, 2005 (UTC)
Mel, you so far only admin who accept good faith and understand I not trying to harm. You comment on RFC good or neutral maybe?
( William M. Connolley 20:11, 29 May 2005 (UTC)) Hi. You removed the delete tag on Ssmr but didn't say why. Errm... why? Its listed on Wikipedia:Speedy deletions too, BTW. So... I listed it because SSMR is the correct acronym (or SSM/R) not Ssmr, which isn't. Leaving Ssmr will do little harm I suppose, but also little good.
I respectfully disagree. According to Merriam Webster, http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=God&x=0&y=0, God, when capitalized means the Supreme Being. When you make it lower case, http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=deity&x=0&y=0, such as deity, a god would mean a Greco-roman god, not a supreme Reality. Shaivities belive that Shiva is the Supreme Being vs. being a god or deva or deity. Subtle difference. I did drop the article the. Thanks.
Raj2004
22:51, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
I still think it's important to make that point. Muslims believe Allah to be the only God just as Jews believe Yahweh to be the only God. The same goes with Shaivites although they think other aspects of God are different forms of Shiva. Raj2004 11:01, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
There is currently an editing war that is turning ugly. Yes, people want to delete the Cyprus Dispute and The Turkish Invasion of Cyprus and Half of the wikipedians seem to be either Turks or Turkish sympathizers. There is also one nationalist Greek. It is turning so ugly that I fear that if they get their way they migh even succeed in deleting even the Rebublic of Cyprus entry. They are also threatening to delete Smyrna. I appeal to you and place the following wiki members under review for actions against the policy of NPOV: Expatkiwi, Feco, E.A (check out this guy's bias on his user talk page). ... added at 05:33, 2005 May 30 UNFanatic
Mel, Enviroknot is rather understandably unhappy about the way the sockpuppet template keeps popping up on his user page. On my talk page at least, he phrases this unhappiness politely. The charming little sock is accompanied by: "See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR#User:Enviroknot/User:129.7.35.1 for evidence." So I did. Not there. Supposing that it was in the archives, I looked there too. Perhaps I missed something, but the closest I could find was this, in which SlimVirgin and Yuber make the allegation but adduce no evidence. If you're sure there was a "User:Enviroknot/User:129.7.35.1", I'll look for it; if not, I think a better link is needed. -- Hoary 11:05, 2005 May 30 (UTC)
Hi there,
in reply: I found it more productive to re-edit the article a bit. - Snchduer 16:13, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
Oops. Sorry. Won't use that one anymore. -- ericl234 talk 22:39, May 30, 2005 (UTC)
Could you do what needs doing on Human with regard to implementing the consensus on paragraph four? I'm unfamilar with both the mechanics and traditions associated with freezing and unfreezing articles. Thanks for your help. 4.250.198.168 14:59, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
If you could kindly respond to the discussion in which you accused me of acting in "bad faith" I would appreciate it greatly.
With insincere polite regards (because we all know that it's the text, and not the thought that counts),
-- Phrost 19:46, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi Mel, though my break is far from finished, I've thought up something and need someone to say whether my idea is sensible or not. It's here. I'm open to all kinds of criticism. If you've got questions, just ask me (though it might take me some time to reply as I'm not yet fully recovered). Cheers - JM* Bell ° 20:32, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
Sorry! But I really do think Wikipedia has a problem with them! (81.156.177.21 Cheese Deams, Fish Supper etc)
Bye forever,
Angel77
Hi, I think there is slightly more agreement than disagreement for the redirects to Neofascism and religion from Islamofascism, Islamic fascism, and Christian fascism, so if you agree, could you remove page protection, archive up those pages, and plop in the redirects? This is even more justified given the current controversies over some of the objectors. If you think you are the wrong Admin to do this given the level of hell you have been consigned to, can you suggest someone else? Just trying to get this done at some point. -- Cberlet 02:46, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Actually I have redirected Islamic fascism and Christian fascism. I will archive them in a week if there is no explosion. Then maybe I can redirect Islamofascism. -- Cberlet 13:15, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
If you are interested, you may look up [5]. (Sorry for the delay, for my computer was down)
I have already replied. If you still disagree, feel free to post your comments at [6]. Tan 21:31, 1 June 2005 (UTC)
FYI: Votes to request a move do not happen on WP:RM any more, they take place on the talk page of the page requested to be moved. In this case I suspect it is a troll. Philip Baird Shearer 14:30, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Mel, thanks for your vote in support of my admin nomination. Paul August ☎ 17:03, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Mel. I have been, at Dsquared's request (a red talk link showed up on my watchlist, and one thing led to another), looking at the talk discussion for Oliver North. While I understand that you have spent a long time editing that article, and have been fighting POV-pushers, I do think that you should be more ready to listen to Dsquared without labelling him a sockpuppet, unless there is direct evidence to the contrary. I think you are quite possibly being a little hasty – I understand your reasons, but I think you could be more diplomatic. Wikipedia:Don't bite the newcomers. I understand fully your point of view (indeed, I agree with your wording), but I think more diplomacy would not go amiss. Cheers, smoddy 23:36, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I've restored the text additions you deleted without overwriting your previous copy edits; my pastes were done from an offline copy of the article. One thing I did fix was the location of the "hereford" image so that it no longer breaks into the section title. In the future, please do not delete content from articles without prior discussion; it took a fair amount of research to develop the original stub article into something of reasonable depth and factual accuracy, and to expand it meaningfully as well. We all have the same goal here.
-- Lordkinbote 02:30, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
Hi there, I see you're deleting images. Perhaps you could have a look at Image:CryptoDick2.jpg which was uploaded a few minutes ago. I wasn't sure if a {{db}} tag worked on images. Regards. Anilocra 12:22, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
A quick google seach would have shown you that this was speediable, I've listed it for vfd now. -- nixie 15:33, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Mr Tan has asked I "judge" Zanskar; of course I said I could do no such thing, but offer to mediate informally -- as any Wikipedian might do -- if you and he have any willingness I do so.
My qualifications are two: I am absolutely impartial to the topic, so far as I know; I have no idea what Zanskar is, and have not so much as followed the link to the page. My command of my language is excellent; I understand there are issues of both content and form.
To the extent that it may develop I discover a bias of mine to affect the debate -- whatever that may be -- I promise to suppress it as far as possible, and failing that, to recuse myself. Whatever the subject may be, I trust it can be stabilized. — Xiong 熊 talk * 16:30, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)
Fragmented discussion merged to Usertalk :Xiong -- please avoid fragmented discussions. -- I had to post to your page to bring you into the discussion, but from here on out, I suggest I host the topic of my involvement in this article on my talk page. Feel free to delete above text. — Xiong 熊 talk * 00:20, 2005 Jun 3 (UTC)
Apologies, I assume that you know better- the only reason I changed it is because I am studying Philosophy & on my syllabus it says "Gaunilo's analogy of the island in On Behalf of the Fool". I just assumed this was right and the link had a typo. Sorry. - sars 16:41, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
At the moment I'm just at AS Level, although I do hope to study Philosophy & Maths at uni - I notice you are a professor at Oxford- I'll certainly be applying at Oxbridge, though whether I'd get in with such competition is another matter! sars 21:17, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
Yeah I was in contact with somebody, (I think her name was Ms Hood?) about going to the open day that was on May 7th but couldn't go in the end- but thanks a lot for letting me know about June 30th, I'll definitely go along. :) sars 21:34, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
What was wrong with my addition to the article on Power violence?
I think the Gwen Stefani album page requires protection. The guy who keeps adding the New Order collaboration doesn't seem to understand that there isn't one. There isn't one. DrippingInk 21:55, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I've started a Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration on User:Argyrosargyrou. Please take a look and add any evidence you feel is relevant to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Argyrosargyrou/Evidence. -- ChrisO 22:21, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Just to let you know, I feel that it would be more appropriate that the cleanup tag would be put up if mass article-restructuring is needed/to be done, see Joseon dynasty for comparison. Feel free to post your comments.
I hope that you will not interrupt in my re-structuring editing progress. I am already seriously spiritually and mentally disturbed at your tyrannical attitude towards me. I hope that settles the case. Thanks.
Done. Sorry, I should have known better. SlimVirgin (talk) 14:04, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC) ]
Go and see my reply.
Well, I had just created a welcoming template for newcomers when I saw yours... WOW! Really nicely done. Do you mind if I borrow a few ideas from it? Sarg 14:59, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Why are you reverting my edits at
You stated that I should contribute to wikipedia, yet you are doing reverts. Can you explain why? I'm merely doing spelling corrections and adding facts.
Stop your explicit reverts without explanations now. I am tracking on you. Otherwise I ask an admin to block you.
Unless you elaborate on your reasons for the reverts [7], I do not welcome explicit reverts like this. I have counter-reverted all your reverts for you gave no proper explanations or providing proper information on your case. If you go on like this, I will have to ask a member of the arbitration committee to review your case, unless you change your attitude.
Gentlemen, what is going on here? Why are we having an issue? Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 17:00, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
See his [] contributions; most of reverts he did not give proper reasons; probably vandalism.
Cool down. I don't see where are your edits, but you deleted my contributions to the articles. Please stop reverting my contributions without reasons, and that is what you do. You may contribute on top from there, but that doesn't warrant you to revert and revert explicitely. I cannot see where did you add in in addition to my reverts, and I consider a revert + addins as a revert.
When you cleaned the reference in the Sister Theresia Unno, I appreciate the removal of all caps, but I think removing the web page reference retrieval date and the footnote is improper.
Web sites are subject to change, and the only way to properly cite them as references is to cite the date as well. See WP:CITE. Her starting the FJANL organization is specific to the reference, so there should also be a footnote, to clarify the source when the article is expanded further.
Thanks for the edit. I've restored the footnote in fn/fnb form rather than manual footnoting by superscript numbers, and I've restored the retrieval date to the reference. -- Un focused 16:55, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Dear M, I have heard some speculation that the Greek "arete" is somehow derived from the Sanskrit "rta". I regret I don't have a source for this (of course), but it's popped up a number of times. This is sort of outside my philosophical education, so perhaps you could comment?
Yours, Mashford 66.82.9.63 20:33, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I created entries for Brenda Barrie (linked from personalities born in Winnipeg) and her novel The Binding, and I notice you were quick like a bunny to make some modifications.
Main difference between version you restored and my later one is that I looked for other items mentioned that had relevant pages and set them up as links, and italicized titles throughout (except when they are links).
This seems like fun. I'm about to create an account and join the community.
Thanks again,
Gray Matter gray-matter@bigbluepeople.net
You may wish to respond to User:Mr Tan's comments on my user talk page. Or not. Up to you. Kelly Martin 05:07, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
Most of the work was just a cut-and-paste job, so there is no reason to be impressed. ;-)
Last week I had created my second m:red link to grunion since I had started editing on the Wikipedia, so I decided that it was about time that I create the missing article. Luckily the material from the California Fish and Game Dept. is in the public domain, and there was also an article on grunion this last week in the Los Angeles Times. I was working on creating a more polished article when the newly created article showed up on my Watchlist, so I figured that I should copy and paste what I already had (mostly from Cal. F&G), rather than the more polished article I am still planning on finishing. Right now I'm working on getting some good pictures to add to the article. I guess that the since the article is now "live", I should suggest it for " Did you know".
(I find it interesting that I was able to set up an article on my Watchlist that wasn't even created yet.) BlankVerse ∅ 10:33, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Mel, please behave constructively. Your "overhauling of new material" included your fifth removal of the bolded "Harry" at the beginning of that article in a day, that's why it was misleading. Mr. Tan claims that his British birth certificate lists his full name as "Harry Lee Kuan Yew". If that is true (and I haven't seen anyone on the talk page claim that it isn't), it's perfectly reasonable to start the article the way he wants to. Zocky 12:21, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I tagged it for speedy deletion because the content is "lkjl;". Note that it is an image from Commons, so it won't disappear if you delete the page here. RexNL 13:47, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Before you start arbitration, I demand the rights of mine in the following:
Look here. I have my reasons to back against all your edits. And I'm not just going to sit down here and get arbitrated for nothing.
I encourage you to speak out on whatever resentements against me, provided if this is a fair arbitration. However, if your arbitration does not meet the above conditions, I will see to other methods to deal with your attitude. Thanks.
You did not invite me, in fact, you forced me in, for I'm a participant of the arbitration. See what you stated: Please do not edit this page directly unless you wish to become a participant in this request. So, I am forced into under such circumstances to edit your page. Tan 23:41, 4 June 2005 (UTC)
As if you don't know? Then why did the articles that I edited coincide to a great extent with yours, all those stupid reverts? I'm not a fool, professor.
A co-incidence...I never refered to it properly, honestly.
You forced me into this stupid arbitration thing, and I do not want to have any reverts from you. This is unfair for you to do such a thing, unless you close everything altogether.
But why you say that Please do not edit this page directly unless you wish to become a participant in this request. I am a participant of this case in the first place. It just so happens that I'm included by you, and yet you are prohibiting me to edit the page. Thus, what I mean is spiritually forced, and it is not fair at all for you to do such a thing.
I wrote the short stub on Colby Donaldson which replaced the redirect. In general, I feel that an article on the subject, even a stub, is preferable to a redirect to another article. MK2 17:21, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I know you arent going ot believe I'm trying to help the guy, but here goes. A number of individuals from that usenet group he lives in have set up a nasty Wiki entry for Chad. You should delete it or something. Its pretty bad.